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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Anne Applebaum / Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith and Berkeley Arts & Letters host a virtual event with Anne Applebaum for her new book\, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism. Please join us! \nThis will be a virtual event\, which we will be streaming live on our Facebook page. Please note our early start time of 12pm PST. \nFriends\, neighbors: If you’d like to support the store while we are otherwise closed in the interest of public health\, you can do that in the usual ways: \n> Buy the book and we’ll deliver it directly to your door.\n> Buy a gift certificate\, which never expires.\n> Make a donation. \nA Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist explains\, with electrifying clarity\, why some of her contemporaries have abandoned liberal democratic ideals in favor of strongman cults\, nationalist movements\, or one-party states. \nAcross the world today\, from the U.S. to Europe and beyond\, liberal democracy is under siege while different forms of authoritarianism are on the rise. In Twilight of Democracy\, prize-winning historian Anne Applebaum argues that we should not be surprised by this change: There is an inherent appeal to political systems with radically simple beliefs\, especially when they benefit the loyal to the exclusion of everyone else. \nPeople are not just ideological\, she contends in this captivating extended essay; they are also practical\, pragmatic\, opportunist. The authoritarian and nationalist parties that have arisen within modern democracies offer new paths to wealth or power for their adherents. Describing politicians\, journalists\, intellectuals\, and others who have abandoned democratic ideals in the UK\, U.S.\, Spain\, Poland\, and Hungary\, Applebaum reveals the patterns that link the new advocates of illiberalism and charts how they use conspiracy theory\, political polarization\, social media\, and nostalgia to change their societies. \n\nAnne Applebaum was one of the first journalists to raise the alarm about Russian interference in U.S. elections and antidemocratic trends in Europe. Her 2018 Atlantic article\, “A Warning from Europe\,” inspired this book and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. After seventeen years as a columnist at The Washington Post\, she became a staff writer at The Atlantic in January 2020. She is the author of three critically acclaimed and award-winning histories of the Soviet Union: Red Famine\, Iron Curtain\, and Gulag\, winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
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SUMMARY:Laurie Halse Anderson and Leila del Duca
DESCRIPTION:From an unstoppable warrior to a struggling teenage refugee\, get ready to see Wonder Woman in a new light. \n\n\n\n\nThis is an Online Event. \nNew York Times bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak\, Shout) and artist Leila del Duca have reimagined Wonder Woman’s origins in this timely story about the refugee experience\, teenage activism\, and finding the love and strength to create change. \nPrincess Diana of Themyscira believes that her 16th birthday will be one of new beginnings⁠— namely\, acceptance into the warrior tribe of the Amazons. But her birthday celebrations are cut short when rafts carrying refugees break through the barrier that separates her island home from the outside world. When Diana defies the Amazons to try to bring the outsiders to safety\, she finds herself swept away by the stormy sea. Cut off from everything she’s ever known\, Diana herself becomes a refugee in an unfamiliar land. Now Diana must survive in the world beyond Themyscira for the first time–a world that is filled with danger and injustice unlike anything she’s ever experienced. With new battles to be fought and new friends to be made\, she must redefine what it means to belong\, to be an Amazon\, and to make a difference. in a story about growing into one’s strength\, fighting for justice\, and finding home. \nWonder Woman: Tempest Tossed is more than a reboot of Wonder Woman’s origin story\, weaving in real-world issues like refugee crises and child trafficking. \n\n\n\n\nLaurie Halse Anderson is a New York Times-bestselling author known for tackling tough subjects with humor and sensitivity. Two of her books\, Speak and Chains\, were National Book Award finalists\, and Chains was also short-listed for the UK’s Carnegie medal. She was selected by the American Library Association for the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her significant contribution to young adult literature. Laurie has also been honored for her battles for intellectual freedom by the National Coalition Against Censorship and the National Council of Teachers of English. She is a member of RAINN’s National Leadership Council and frequently speaks about sexual violence. \nLeila del Duca is a comic book artist and writer who draws Sleepless\, Shutter and writes Afar at Image Comics. Leila has drawn for titles such as The Wicked + The Divine\, Scarlet Witch\, American Vampire\, and The Pantheon Project. In 2015 and 2016\, Leila was nominated for the Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award for her work on Shutter. \nJoin us as we discuss all things Wonder Woman
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